Kurushima

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Kurushima
Native name:
来島
Lurisima 01.jpg
Kurushima is located in Ehime Prefecture
Kurushima
Kurushima
Geography
LocationSeto Inland Sea, Japan
Coordinates34°07′04″N 132°58′10″E / 34.117714°N 132.969343°E / 34.117714; 132.969343Coordinates: 34°07′04″N 132°58′10″E / 34.117714°N 132.969343°E / 34.117714; 132.969343
ArchipelagoJapanese Archipelago
Area0.04 km2 (0.015 sq mi)[1]
Coastline1 km (0.6 mi)[1]
Highest elevation45 m (148 ft)[2]
Administration
Japan
PrefectureEhime Prefecture
CityImabari
Demographics
Population32 (2009)[3]

Kurushima (来島) is an Japanese island in the Inland Sea. Administratively, it forms part of the city of Imabari, Ehime Prefecture.[1]

Geography[]

Kurushima is situated some 240 metres (790 ft) off the coast of Shikoku's Takanawa Peninsula (高縄半島) at the entrance to Hashihama Port (波止浜港) in Imabari.[1][2] The island has a coastline of approximately 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) and a surface area of 0.44 square kilometres (0.17 sq mi).[1] It is a natural fortress with cliffs to the north shaped by the fast currents (some 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) to 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)) and rocks below; there is a settlement on the flatter land to the south, around a small bay.[1][2][3] To the east, the Kurushima Straits (来島海峡) are spanned by the Kurushima Kaikyō Bridge, while the island is protected as part of Setonaikai National Park.[4]

History[]

During the Sengoku period, the island was the base of the Kurushima Murakami, one of the three main houses of the (the others the Noshima Murakami and Innoshima Murakami).[5] There are still remains of the walls of Kurushima Castle (来島城), an element of Japan Heritage "Story" #036,[6] as well as traces of residences and wells.[3] In the Edo period, together with nearby Oshima (小島), the island was part of Kurushima Village (来島村) in Matsuyama Domain, with an assessment of twenty-six koku, three to, and nine shō.[2] Around the end of the Kyōhō era in the early eighteenth century there were some seventy-eight households, fifty-three of them of fishermen.[2] By Shōwa 53 (1978) this number had dropped to thirty-nine households, primarily making a living by commuting to the local shipyards and line fishing.[2] As of 2009, Kurushima had thirty-two residents.[3]

Related maps[]

  • 1953 US AMS map showing Hiroshima Prefecture and, across the sea to the south, Imabari in Ehime Prefecture; Kurushima is the small unmarked island near the bottom, to the right of the tip of what is marked Shikoku, just above Hashihama and to the southwest of "O-shima" ("Ko-jima" on the next map)

  • 1946 US AMS map showing "Kuru-shima", to the southwest of "Ko-jima" ("O-shima" on the previous map)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f 来島 [Kurushima] (in Japanese). Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f 来島 [Kurushima]. Kokushi Daijiten (in Japanese). Yoshikawa Kōbunkan 吉川弘文館. 1979–1997.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d 来島 [Kurushima]. Encyclopedia Nipponica (in Japanese). Shōgakukan. 2001.
  4. ^ 愛媛県地域（今治南） [Setonaikai National Park: Ehime Region (Imabari City)] (in Japanese). Ministry of the Environment. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  5. ^ Shapinsky, Peter D. (2009). "Predators, Protectors, and Purveyors: Pirates and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan". Monumenta Nipponica. Sophia University. 64 (2): 292.
  6. ^ "Story #036 Murakami Kaizoku". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 21 August 2020.

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